Bloomberg Law
June 7, 2019, 7:23 PM UTC

Dem Proposals to Shake Up Court May Fall Flat, Legal Experts Say

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson
Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson
Reporter

Expanding and making the U.S. Supreme Court less political, as some Democratic presidential candidates suggest, may be too complex as a campaign theme to motivate their base and may actually wind up helping President Donald Trump get re-elected.

Law and political science experts raised those points on Friday in a discussion on political strategy and the concept of courts as a mechanism for progressive change at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention in Washington.

While Republicans have done so successfully, Democrats historically haven’t made courts a campaign issue nationally. But some are testing the waters with these themes in early ...

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